Marktkirchhof 16 (Quedlinburg)

Marktkirchhof house 16, south side

North side

The house Marktkirchhof 16 is a Grade II listed building in the town of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

It is located in the historic Quedlinburg old town, north of the city's market square. The building, registered as a residential building in the Quedlinburg monument register, is on the north side of the Marktkirchhof and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site . Its southern facade faces the Marktkirchhof, the northern one faces the Kornmarkt. To the west is the also listed building Marktkirchhof 15 , to the east is the Marktkirchhof 17 building .

Architecture and history

The two-storey half - timbered house was built in 1694 as a boys' and Latin school for the Sankt Benedikti parish by the master carpenter Martin Lange , whose signature M. MARTEN LANGE ZM with a coat of arms is on the threshold of the south facade. On the northern side of the early baroque building there are remains of a profiled portal. The building's front door is remarkable.

literature

• Falko Grubitzsch in: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1: Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer and others: Magdeburg administrative region. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 743.
• State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried and Mario Titze: Quedlinburg district. Volume 1: City of Quedlinburg. Fly head, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4 , page 176 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 150

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 '25.7 "  N , 11 ° 8' 33.2"  E